Les œuvres mathematiques de Simon Stevin de Bruges. Ou sont inserées les memoires mathematiqves,esquelles s'est exercé le tres-haut & tres-illustre prince Maurice de Nassau ..

by: Stevin, Simon, 1548-1620; Maurits, prince of Orange, stadholder of the Netherlands, 1567-1625; Girard, Albert, 1595-1632; Diophantus, of Alexandria

Publication date: 1634

Topics: Mathematics, Cosmography, Mechanics, Fortification

Publisher: Leyde, Chez B. & A. Elsevier, imprimeurs

Collection: smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

In double columns. Title in red and black. Printer's mark: The solitaire. Head and tail pieces; initials

Vols. 2-6 paged continuously

Paging irregular in v. 2: p. 63-64, p. 69-70, p. 162-166 numbered 69-70, 63-64, 172-176 respectively

Vol. 1 appeared separately in 1625; v. 2-5 form part of the Memoirs of Prince Maurice of Nassau; the parts of v. 6 were printed separately in 1618. cf. Willems, 413

I. L'arthmetique. Les six livres d'Algebre de Diophante d'Alexandrie: dont les quatre premiers sont de la traduction de Simon Stevin; & les deux derniers sont nouvellement traduicts par Albert Girard. La practique d'arithmetiqve de Simon Stevin.--II. La cosmographie, contenant: La doctrine des triangles, La geographie, & L'astronomie.--III. La practiqve de geometrie.--IV. L'art ponderaire, ou lastatiqve.--V. L'optiqve.--VI. La castrametation. La fortification par escluses. La fortification

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